Talk to Her
Original Title
Hable Con Ella- Director: Pedro Almodóvar
- Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
- Producer: Agustín Almodóvar; Michel Ruben
CGiii Comment
Is this Pedro's finest moment? It's certainly one of them.
Your heartstrings will be plucked and pulled apart by the agonising pain...of love, of friendship.
Here, Almodóvar has shown great restrain - his trademarks are present but diluted...the anxiety is pulled back, scaled down...without losing the intensity.
The story will sweep you off of your feet - the understated performances are involving...Camara's complex innocenct is an extraordinary character - he should be despised...but, you can't help but love the unloved.
Definitely, one of Pedro's finest moments.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.
Cast & Characters
Javier Camara as Benigno Martin;
Dario Grandinetti as Marco Zuluaga;
Leonor Watling as Alicia;
Rosario Flores as Lydia Gonzalez;
Mariola Fuentes as Rosa;
Geraldine Chaplin as Katerina Bilova;
Pina Bausch as Bailarina 'Cafe Muller';
Malou Airaudo as Bailarine 'Cafe Muller';
Caetano Veloso as Singer at party - 'Cucurrucucu Paloma';
Roberto Alvarez as Doctor;
Elena Anaya as Angela;
Lola Duenas as Matilde;
Adolfo Fernandez as Nino de Valencia;
Ana Fernandez as Hermana de Lydia;
Chus Lampreave as Portera